Elektra Boogaloo

It has been a harrowing week. I forgot my password. I am Tig. Listeners would hate me. I wanted to talk about Faberge eggs. Because when listening o thought, "didn't people have weird fake Faberge eggs in the 80s?" I googled decorative eggs and was BOGGLED by the results. It is still a thing. I looked at some hideous ones Wayfair and eBay. I had links but now you will have to do that research yourself. So maybe if you need a Valentine's day gift, say you care with a weirdly decorated egg. (Is Jason also allergic to ceramic ones?) It doesn't look like any of the real Faberge eggs are in Philly. There are some in Baltimore, Cleveland, Richmond, DC and New York though.

I lsitened to the Valerian episode on the Stitcher free trial and then some old HDTGM for six days and then deleted my account. So free! Also, Pee Cast Blast is indeed a terrible name for a show. I am adding the dinosaur sex books to the HDTGW list. You're welcome. As for the appeal of Todd: He is big and dumb and rich. He also solves problems by punching people. I think the appeal is obvious.

Thanks for clearing stuff up, Paul. I could talk about Sweet Valley for literally hours. I used to run a blog about it.

Well this is actually a sad bit of trivia. I mean, half-sad. Lee didn't want to do villain roles anymore so when Jackson called he thought he would be playing Gandalf who was like his hero. So apparently there was like a half an hour or so when he was confused, and Jackson had to break it to him or whatever. (If it were me, I would've just filmed all the Gandalf scenes twice because fuck it, he's Christopher Lee.) But Ian McKellen said he was perfectly lovely about it on set. When, as we have seen, he could have easily had McKellen killed and made to look like an accident. I have not read the books and I'm usually the nerd who has read the books. Speaking of, this weekend I was toying with the idea of a How Did This Get Read bookclub, thanks to Paul's twitter. Here are the books I thought of: #1 (with a bullet) The one gymkata is based on #2 The One Cobra and Fair Game are based on #3 Disaster Artist #4 Twilight #5 Safe Haven #6 Stephen King's Lawnmower Man Short Story (I refuse to read Dreamcatcher, it's too long; I have things to do.) I forget what else.

It was just that there were new posters her solely to say they hate Tig and how she talks about being a lesbian. I don't think I saw that since the "Don't Stop the Music" episode so it was weird. But I don't want to come off defending Tig's performance as strongly as I will STILL defend Esposito's, because she had a few laughs at the end and that was it. I am sorry to the people who were hyped and paid. It was like they had one guest (so like the Boston shows?). The falling asleep isn't really new either. June has fallen asleep, Adam Scott did for Xander Cage, one of guests for Body Parts, I think? Maybe it is a measure of degree. But only the lesbians get new accounts to hate on them? Watch Tig win all the Howdys now. I'm going to get off my soapbox now. Let's get back to talking about how cool Christopher Lee is! Did you know he read LoTR every year? As a book nerd, respect

So it seems the forums tend to hate it when lesbians are on the podcast? Or they mention being a lesbian? This makes me uncomfortable. When listening, I did think it sucked that Tig couldn't comment much. But was I the only one who thought it was a bit? Like how on DLM she never knows the movies? Like maybe she did fall asleep and thought that would be funny but it didn't really work out? I'm sorry for everyone who was there but to everyone else: it's a free podcast.

I totally Juned this movie in the sense that I did not watch it at all. BUT I really want to talk about Christopher Lee. We know him as Dracula and the original Wicker Man, but Christopher Lee volunteered for special service during World War II. He did a lot of stuff, including working for the SOE the so called "Ministry of Ungentlemanly Warefare" (Description from book on them: "Fighting a secret war behind enemy lines and using the guerrilla tactics of sabotage, ambush, murder and subversion, agents killed when necessary and took prisoners when possible, in the belief that their methods would hasten the end of the war.") Anyway, my favorite move set anecdote EVER came from Peter Jackson. Video can be found HERE, basically Peter Jackson is telling Christopher Lee how to act when Wormtongue stabs him. And Lee asked him if he knew what sound a man makes when he's stabbed in the back? And Lee said, "Because I do." At which point I imagine everyone on set just slowly backing away. TL;DR Christopher Lee stabbed Nazis in the back.

Betty White, With an Urn of Ashes, It's Your Birthday.

Everyone in my twitter is talking about Paul today. (I work in book publishing. And Paul was tweeting about romance novels) Do you think it'd make me cool if I said one time I went alone to a live taping of Paul's podcast and joked with him about someone on the forums being a segregationist? ... damnit.

I'm kind of upset that this was suggested and I'm not sure why. I haven't seen it in forever.

Wow. I am sorry I brought up Tims now. It's is trying to treat its workers like American workers! You should definitely protest that, Canada! You don't want to become America. We are a cautionary tale! I wish I knew another Canadian thing. ... Roots clothing? Get a sweatshirt, Paul. ETA: Oh look I have over 600 posts. That's 600 emails I put off reading. Thanks, guys.

Hey the trailer that plays in this ep is for "Second Sight" not the werewolf movie. I don't think Paul is adjusting to Canada well. Don't worry. Have a Timbit and get some free healthcare.

Anyone get their eyeballs on this Netflix movie called "The Christmas Prince"? My friend livetweeted her viewing and it seemed bonkers. And I've seen some articles about it. https://www.buzzfeed.com/jennaguillaume/a-christmas-prince-netflix-funny-tweets http://ew.com/movies/2017/11/29/christmas-prince-13-questions/ http://www.refinery29.com/2017/12/184144/christmas-prince-funny-inside-jokes

Yeah that is all devil stuff so it is weird that the Church is involved with this detective agency. The other Catholic correction I have is they kept calling her a "nun in training" and I believe the word for that is novice. Oh and here's another nun related c&o that I worry will blow a hole in "Nundercover." When I was at Catholic school they told us to call habited individuals we saw outside "sisters" (such as the teachers). I was told that only the cloistered women were to be called "nuns." So I am not sure you could go undercover if you were a nun, unless you never left the convent. I looked it up on Wikipedia and it says, "The 1917 Code of Canon Law reserved the term "nun" for religious women who took solemn vows or who, while being allowed in some places to take simple vows, belonged to institutes whose vows were normally solemn." And those words are English but they make no sense to me. Even after I looked up a "Solemn Vow" (a religious vow concerned with an action or abstaining from an action???). ETA: I am from NY so I don't want to be stereotypical and start a beef with Boston, but only one second opinion song? When I was at the Jazz Singer ep we had like six and all but the guy with the guitar was cut out. Get it together, Boston.

Paul got to work with Mel Brooks on SPACEBALLS 2? THE MEL BROOKS from "Solarbabies"?!? http://www.indiewire.com/2018/01/paul-scheer-the-disaster-artist-the-room-tommy-wiseau-last-jedi-turn-it-on-podcast-1201913023/ That's the dream.

I haven't actually watched "Second Sight". Is it worth-it bad?

I think Tommy Lee Jones is great in this, fight me. I mean, BONKERS, obviously. But the kind of bonkers you want from a guy who TWO FACES.

Didn't real Mariners know the Earth wasn't flat for like always? Because you can't just see across the world on a clear day? And it's a myth that Columbus was the first to think it was round? Also, another reason to believe now--even if you think that Moon landing thing was a hoax: satellites work? Like we have GPS in all our phones, ergo NASA calculated correctly? I read an article a few weeks ago about a man who was going to shoot himself into orbit with a homemade rocket to prove the world was flat. https ://www.washingtonpost.com/news/speaking-of-science/wp/2017/11/21/this-man-is-about-to-launch-himself-in-his-homemade-rocket-to-prove-the-earth-is-flat/ I am afraid to look up what happened. Ooh, Lee Danger Hawken came in and out-nerded me on kryptonite. I am shamed.

Here comes the nerd to talk about kryptonite. Kryptonite was originally a radioactive substance from Krypton. So in theory he should react to it the way a human would react to being hit with large doses or radiation. (Super cancer?) It's not just any old piece of his planet. Then they made it more complicated and added different types of kryptonite. The most well-known is the green. (Aside, I first learned about this when Xander and Oz had a fight about it on Buffy because, nerd.) I think the red just makes him act... Odd. The gold kills plant life? There is a whole Wikipedia entry on this. Look it up if you care. I am told the post crisis kryptonite is different but I don't care really. My Superman is from the animated cartoons. Do yourself a favor and watch the two-part episode of Justice League called Wild Cards where Joker sets traps for the JL in Vegas and films it all like a reality TV show. Great work by Mark Hamill as the Joker. That has nothing to do with this podcast but it is a literal cartoon and it's better written than this movie. I wish Jason and Paul had said whether they prefer this or the Richard Pryor one. So great to hear from June! Glad she didnt have to watch the movie.

Should we start a thread for Valerian? Because I'm listening now with my free trial and I want to complain that Jason keeps saying Cara Delevingne is a good actress. I saw Suicide Squad. She is not. She's BEAUTIFUL. But she's been in like six movies? I don't think she's experienced enough. "Paper Towns" looked like shit too and I liked that book.

Well that's a bummer about VALERIAN. But you can sign up for a one week free trial when you download the app on IOS. I assume it will let you cancel before the week is up. I also have one month free from the NOW HEAR THIS festival if anyone wants it. I think that's over the internet not app though. I couldn't figure it out. PM me for code. First come, first served.

I like iZombie but she'll always be the girl from Power Rangers: The Season with Eka Darville, to me.

Was I the only one literally (appropriate usage) yelling "KELSEY GRAMMAR!!!" during the entire Expendables question? I'm so glad Paul got there eventually. I would've had to write a very snippy C&O to the minisode and those don't get read so what's the point.

I saw the LA Times headline was that Hanks and Streep did NOT get nominated and I was like "maybe some people on the HDTGM boards are in SAG?" Haha. I didn't see that Paul was nominated though! YAY. ETA: From the Deadline list: Continued on next page was my favorite on Veep. He's really good in everything.